This book is a guide to how financial steering is designed, measured and implemented with a special focus on the energy industry. The authors offer an overview of and practical insights into the links between financial steering and accounting, and the temporary cycles of investment, divestment,...

Theoretical Background -- Convergence-Divergence within Strategic Groups -- From Crisis to Opportunitiy: How Market Shocks Impact Interfirm Rivalry.-Performance Effects of Corporate Diverstiture Programs

Einführung -- Terminologische Grundlegung -- Transaktionsmodell proaktiver und reaktiver Desinvestitionen als Bezugsrahmen -- Theoretische Erklärungsansätze zur Wertsteigerung durch Desinvestitionen -- Ereignisstudien zur Messung des Erfolgs von Desinvestitionen -- Schlussbetrachtung.

Als Maßnahme zur Sicherung des langfristigen Unternehmenserfolgs werden Desinvestitionen zunehmend als Aufgabe der strategischen Unternehmensführung verstanden. In diesem Kontext stellt sich die Frage, ob und in welcher Form Desinvestitionen von Unternehmensbeteiligungen auch zur Bewältigung...

Grundlagen der Untersuchung -- Konzeptionalisierung und Modellentwicklung -- Methodik und Vorgehensweise der empirischen Untersuchung -- Ergebnisse der empirischen Untersuchung -- Zusammenfassung und Implikationen.

Restructuring and, therein, divestitures have become an indispensable element of corporate strategy for many firms. Divestitures, defined as a firm’s decision to dispose of a significant portion of its assets, can increase a firm’s strength by changing its asset structure and its resource...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of private equity divestment processes--so-called exits--for European buyouts. Examining the efficiency of exits, it offers recommendations and guidelines for an integrated and exit-oriented private equity portfolio management. In addition, the book...

Over the past two decades, equity carve-outs (ECOs) have become an increasingly popular form of corporate restructuring in Europe. Individual business segments are separated from the parent conglomerate company, and a minority stake is listed on the stock exchange. The parent company thus...

Carolin Decker develops and empirically applies a framework in which business exits serve the purpose of re-establishing a firm s previously harmed legitimacy. Her findings support the idea that legitimacy needs drive the likelihood of fit-enhancing business exits in divesting firms.